Driving into Olathe earlier in the week, I was greeted by a large flashing highway sign:
Fireworks illegal. Happy Fourth of July!
All fireworks. At one time, at least, that included sparklers, though the police seemed to have enough to do that one day without crashing barbecues to confiscate sparklers from children.
Last year, I and every other [...]
This entry was originally published on Memorial Day in 2006 and then again in 2007 and again in 2008. I think it shall be an annual tribute to those who have sacrificed for our country. Happy Memorial Day!
I’ve always had a measure of old-fashioned American patriotism, and I was actually quite shocked when [...]
I don’t remember a lot of specific lessons from elementary school. Those I do stand out as something out of the ordinary. Very often, they were craft projects made by enthusiastic hands for my mom for whatever the next national holiday was. Sure, they consisted of a lot popsicle sticks, pom poms and pipe cleaners [...]
Every year, Christmas seems to be thrust into the center of the culture wars as businesses determine how to promote their goods to us and we decide just how upset we are at being wished a Happy Holiday. My concerns began with an email alert I received from the American Family Association regarding the lack [...]
Edward Winslow wrote in A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth (1621):
Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, [...]
I’m just curious. Do you teach Columbus as the evil conqueror who brought disease, death and cultural annihilation to the New World? Or as the hero and great explorer who discovered the New World and brought civilization to it? Or something in between?
We studied Columbus a few years ago using predominantly his own journal which [...]
Christmas of 1862 saw a nation wearied by war. The year before had been merry as young men trotted off to war expecting adventure, honor and the preservation of something noble. They went off as to a frolic, expecting quick victory. Over the course of that first year, however, their enthusiasm had [...]
The Advent season is almost upon us. “Advent” means simply, “important arrival” and of course refers to the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. According to Webster’s 1828 dictionary, it means,
A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning of St. Andrew’s Day, or on [...]
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